The Miami Dolphins have gone the college route to find a couple more assistants for Joe Philbin’s staff.

Former Iowa offensive coordinator Ken O’Keefe also accepted a position as the Dolphins receiver coach, reuniting with his old friend and former protege.

As previously reported in the Sun-Sentinel, Lou Anarumo left Purdue to become Miami’s defensive backs coach, and Phil McGeoghan leaves the University of South Florida to become assistant wide receivers coach for the Dolphins.

O’Keefe has been Iowa’s offensive coordinator since 1999. Before that O’Keefe was the head coach at Allegheny College from 1990-97, and at Fordham University in 1998.

He has a college football record of 83-17-1 as a head coach, and his Allegheny team went 13-0-1 and won the NCAA Division III National Football Championship in 1990.

Philbin was the offensive coordinator/ offensive line coach on O’Keefe’s Allegheny College staff from 1990-93, and credits him as a mentor.

O’Keefe, 58, was known for tutoring quarterbacks on Kirk Ferentz’s staff, and has helped Brad Banks, Drew Tate and Ricky Stanzi develop as solid college quarterbacks.

In 2011, Iowa’s offense was led by senior receiver Marvin McNutt, Jr., junior quarterback James Vandenberg and sophomore tailback Marcus Coker. McNutt, who set a single-season (1,315) and career (2,861) records for receiving yards and touchdowns (12 and 28). His 82 receptions tied the single-season record.

Vandenberg threw for 3,022 yards and 25 touchdowns, completing 58.7% of his pass attempts. Coker’s rushing total of 1,384 yards ranks fourth best for a single season at

This will be O’Keefe’s first season as a coach in the NFL.

A report in the Calgary Herald also claims Randy Melvin has resigned from his position as the defensive line coach for the CFL’s B.C. Lions to join the Dolphins coaching staff.

Considering Kacy Rodgers will coach Miami’s defensive linemen, Mevlin might coach the pass rushers, or serve as a position assistant, or become a quality control coach on the defense.

Melvin spent six seasons in the NFL coaching defensive linemen with the Patriots (2000-01) and Browns (2005-08), but has coaches defensive linemen on the college level at Eastern Illinois, Wyoming, Purdue, Rutgers, Illinois, Temple and Rutgers since 1988. He spent one season with the B.C. Lions after leaving Greg Schiano’s Rutgers staff.

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That game was great football. It had a little bit of everything. What I loved about it was in this day of great offenses and passing games it was really a defensive struggle. There was offense but both defenses did a pretty good job of holding the other team’s O in check. However, at the end of the day it was QB play that mattered.

Just one last note after watching the game with my brother tonight we had a chance to talk about Peyton Manning and he gave me an in depth neuro-surgical opinion. Long and short stay away. Not that it is impossible for him to play again, but there are serious drawbacks. In particular he doubts the nerve can sufficiently regenerate given the age of 36. Buyer beware and peace to the mob.

New England has 2-#1’s, 2-#2’s, their 3rd and 4th, traded away their 5th for Ochocinco, traded their 6th for LB Tracy White and a 7th and then traded both of those 7’s for Safety Jared Page and part of the Randy Moss trade to pick up Minnesota’s 3rd last year.

So they currently only have 6 picks all in the first 4 rounds. I am sure Goddell will somehow find a way to give them 5 to 6 conditional draft picks.

Raiders are screwed. Traded away their 1st for Carson Palmer, traded their 2nd for 2 picks last year to New England, traded their 4th to Washington for Jason Cambell and traded their 7th to Seattle. Plus the used their 3rd for Terrell Pryor in the supplemental draft. So they have only 2picks. screwed.

I just wanted to sound off and remind people that Collinsworth is a person..and in fact (I have exactly ONE degree of separation from him) is a GOOD person. Just because you don’t like something he said during a SB broadcast, let’s not denigrate a good guy.

I know this based on a discussion I had with a gold medalist athlete who worked a lot with him during the beijing games. People are people and we are too!

Easter Illinois, eh? My family helped to start that school over 100 years ago. NFL coaches who went to school there include Mike Shanahan and Sean Payton, and QB Tony Romo is also an alumni. I remember seeing the St. Louis Cardinals at training camp there back in the mid-1980s when I was in town visiting family.

USS Stennis is about to enter the Strait of Hormuz again to head home and we now have 3 Aircraft Carriers in area. If anything is going to happen soon concerning a airstrike it would be in the next couple of days.

When I was in the Navy they always told us the safest place in the world was being on a aircraft carrier.

Kudos to the G-Men. Great game. I can’t believe there was no flag on that final Hail Mary for Offensive Holding as JPP was grabbed and grabbed again by his jersey.

Like I said last week you get a rush up the middle and flush Brady to the ends, that’s how you beat the Pats.

In a Hybrid 4-3 I think Soliai is a must have to stop the run and get that push up the middle as a DT/NT as he takes on double teams. Along with Starks, Odrick and Merling they’ll get that push. Wake playsn DE along with Misi and Franci but please sign a FA DE like Avril and draft Coples, Ingram or Upshaw.

OMAR KELLY was unsuccessful at achieving his childhood dream to become a super hero, so he figured he'd do the next best thing and become a journalist who fights against injustice, and searches for truth. After being bored to death reporting news and covering politics, he switched to sports.
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IZZY GOULD joined the Sun Sentinel in Feb. 2012 as a Senior Sports Reporter on the Miami Dolphins beat. He came to South Florida fresh off covering the University of Alabama football program, including its 2011 national championship team. More